Various Artists: Early Years - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: Early Years - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Early Years

Artist:

Various Artists

Label:

Rhine Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

4713106280110

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2019-08-02

Number of Discs:

2

Additional Details:

2 PACK

Yitzhak-Meir (Isaac) Gitlis was born in Haifa, Palestine Mandate to Jewish parents, who emigrated in 1921 from Kamianets-Podilskyi, Russia, now Ukraine. In 1951, as suggested by his teacher Alice Pashkus, Gitlis participated in the Long-Thibaud Competition in Paris, where he took fifth place. During the preliminary stages of the competition a rumor circulated that he had stolen a Stradivarius violin d uring the war, which caused a scandal on the day of the final. Six years after the fall of Hitler, being a Jew in France was still causing debate. In 1963, he was the first Israeli violinist to play in the Soviet Union. He gave a series of concerts under the cultural exchange program of the Soviet Union and Israel, starting in Vilnius. His other concerts were given in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. In the same year, invited by Giancarlo Menotti, he played in Italy at Spoleto's "6th Festival dei Due Mondi." This release features early recordings from Gitlis, dated between 1949 and 1963.

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